I have changed my opinion on movie piracy during the last few days.<\/p>\n
Until recently I was strictly anti-piracy. \u00a0Maybe not strict enough, but stricter than anyone I know personally. \u00a0I wasn’t downloading movies from the Web. \u00a0I was buying DVDs. \u00a0I was renting DVDs. I was a frequent movie-goer. I was advocating people against movie piracy. \u00a0 I was wrong.<\/p>\n
I am tired of being the “last samurai” pain in the butt. \u00a0Nobody cares anymore. \u00a0And the worst part, is that movie industry doesn’t care. \u00a0Why should I then?<\/p>\n
There is no way anymore for me keep watching movies, while staying an anti-pirate. \u00a0I cannot rent a legitimate DVD anymore – everyone is using pirated and copy-pasted disks. \u00a0I cannot share films with my friends, most of who are downloading them from the Web. \u00a0There is no video-on-demand service around here, like Netflix in the USA. \u00a0Our home ADSL speeds aren’t in the AppleTV ranges yet. And I can’t stay up-to-date using only cinemas, because all of the cinemas in Cyprus belong to the same people, they show the same movies, and they bring only about one new titles a week.<\/p>\n
There is an option of buying DVDs from Amazon, but the prices (including shipping) are prohibitive, and, as I was reminded with my recent DVD player change, I have to pay attention to the regional encoding. \u00a0Otherwise the DVDs that I bought won’t play at all. \u00a0Oh, and, of course, if they play, I will have to go through a gadzillion of un-skip-able ads, trailers, FBI and CIA warnings, and the like. \u00a0I am tired of this crap.<\/p>\n
So, from now on, I won’t be paying much attention to all the movie anti-piracy noise. \u00a0I will still try to get the movie legally – in the cinema or pay-per-view somewhere online, or whatever option will be available. \u00a0But if everything fails, as it often does now, I will download and watch the pirated version. \u00a0I have tried it recently, and it is a pleasure, indeed. \u00a0It’s easy to find the film I want to see, it takes minutes to download it (compared to days or weeks waiting for it in the cinema or for a shipping delivery), I can talk about it with my friends again, and I can move on spending times on the things that I worth spending time on.<\/p>\n
I tried my best and failed miserably, annoying a lot of people on the way. \u00a0I won’t do it anymore.<\/p>\n
P.S.: I won’t be producing or commercially distributing any pirated materials.<\/p>\n
P.P.S.: The above opinion change for now only applies to the TV and movie industry. \u00a0Software industry is different and I still stand strict on the anti-piracy stand there.<\/p>\n
P.P.P.S.: If you were annoyed by my anti-piracy rants over the years, please excuse me. \u00a0You should know how\u00a0passionate and stubborn\u00a0I can get, often for no reason.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n